I have a situation where I have to take a required minimum distribution from an inherited IRA so that comes out for the first quarter, then I pull additional funds for the 2nd and 3rd quarters from the same account, and finally take my 4th quarter expenses from my taxable account's year-end cap gains/distributions. I may end up reinvesting some of them this year tho.

It's been a weird withdrawal for me. I have been retired 2 and 1/2 years now and just by circumstances, have had one large withdrawal and than none.

We bought a new cottage (second home) and had to bail out about 5% of our 'stache which was more than I wanted to do, but we had to put a lot down to get a small mortgage because when you're retired they don't count all the money you have, just what is coming in! Then a few month later we sold our old cottage and we lived off of that money for a year and 1/2.

Then, our renters moved out of our rental and we sold that and still are living off of that money. Meanwhile, my stache has grown so much more from not taking anything out for almost 2 years. I will probably take out 2% in January like soccerluvof4 because of the run up although we don't need it yet and than wait until later in the year.

I haven't started any withdrawals yet, my wife still works. My expected method for withdrawals is to collected the dividends from my Vanguard VTSAXand I have several REIT preferred stocks and a couple REITs, they allpay over 7%. That should give $40k+. I hope to just have dividends deposited into checking,although I haven't looked into it yet. Most of the dividends are paid every 3 months, but a few have staggered dates.